This St’át’imcets word for “Frenchman” does not come from English!
Jan van Eijk’s fine 2013 “Lillooet-English Dictionary“, page 14, has the word pḷạ́nsmən meaning ‘Frenchman’.
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1778: Captain James Cook on the PNW coast — Definitely not Nootka Jargon, but… (Part 2: Vocabulary)
In Part 1 of this mini-series on James Cook’s first-contact narrative, I showed what he expressed in the narrative of his 1778 visit in Nuuchahnulth country at what’s now known as Nootka Sound,… Continue reading
1778: Captain James Cook on the PNW coast — Definitely not Nootka Jargon, but… (Part 1: Narrative)
By definition, a first-contact report won’t contain a pidgin language, such as the so-called Nootka Jargon, nor Chinook Jargon, which we’ve been finding didn’t yet exist…
A Jargon metaphor from SW WA Salish / English? ‘Hit/find/get’ <=> ‘arrive at’ a place
There’s a metaphor in Chinuk Wawa that we only seem to know from the Northern Dialect…but evidence suggests it may be older, from the Southern Dialect.
Still more about “Cayuse French”!
A decade ago in this space, I wrote “Cayuse French, It’s a Thing“. I gave examples from books.
1885, Seattle area: The Perry Bayne trial
Perry Bayne is charged with murder in the massively multicultural King County area…
Why is ‘plum’ púm in Quinault Salish?
The only dictionary of Quinault, a Southwest Washington Salish (a.k.a. a “Tsamosan”) language, tells us púm means ‘plum’. Huh?
1895, Spokane: Chinese/Irish immigrant Ah Yehn/McGinty talks Chinook and English
Maybe he immigrated to Ireland first.
‘Stamps’, ‘envelopes’, and ‘addresses’ in northern-dialect Chinook Jargon
The wonderful unique thing about Northern Dialect CJ is, people wrote to each other in it, quite a lot.
1905, Chemawa, OR: Indian school closing
“Indian School Closing”, says the headline, but it’s just about a graduation day at Chemawa.